Holocaust

Popular accounts of the Holocaust overlook its irrationality and often disordered violence.

The 1993 film also inspired its director, Steven Spielberg, to establish a foundation that preserves survivors' stories.

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.

With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever.

Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.

In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to speak out against Holocaust analogies is a moral threat.

What did the Roosevelt administration know, and when?

Wielding Holocaust memory to make America look good is an American tradition.

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

History suggests otherwise.

It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.

On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.

How our misunderstanding of the Holocaust offers moral cover for the geopolitical disasters of our time.

Nazis play a key role as villain in American collective consciousness—but without broad understanding of antisemitism.

A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.

Two family histories by Americans connected to Europe’s twentieth century through their fascist grandfathers seek to occupy the void between history and memory.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.

My mother’s desk connected me with our shared heritage.